Michael Hunt

Whitestone Land will start work on a 66-room Travelodge hotel at Stonedale Retail Park in Liverpool in two months.

The £4m hotel will open on the East Lancashire Road later this year, with accommodation above 5,000 sq ft of ground floor retail space.

Nick Howard, director at Whitestone Land, said: "Travelodge has bought the space from us for an undisclosed sum after we purchased the building from a pub company. We're still talking to a number of operators for retail opportunities and these are based across the country."